regulatory-taking

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25A896 Homewood Associates Inc., et al. v. Unified Government of Athens-Clarke County, Georgia Georgia 2026-02-06 Application constitutional-challenge land-use-restriction municipal-ordinance property-rights regulatory-taking takings-clause Question not identified.
25-523 United Water Conservation District v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-10-29 Pending Amici (7) fifth-amendment government-appropriation physical-taking property-rights regulatory-taking water-rights Whether the government's appropriation of water that a person had a property right to use is analyzed as a physical taking, rather than a regulatory t…
25-414 The Sunshine Group, LLC v. City of Dana Point, California, et al. California 2025-10-06 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived constitutional-violation due-process ex-parte notice-requirement property-rights regulatory-taking The City of Dana Point "red tagged" Petitioner's motel and then had a receiver appointed to oversee its rehabilitation without ever providing notice o…
25A228 United States v. Darby Development Company, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2025-08-28 Presumed Complete administrative-agency fifth-amendment government-action regulatory-taking statutory-authority takings-clause Whether an administrative agency's unauthorized regulatory action that exceeds its statutory authority can constitute a compensable taking under the F…
24-1276 California Association for the Preservation of Gamefowl v. Stanislaus County, California Ninth Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied constitutional-challenge due-process facial-challenge property-rights regulatory-taking statute-of-limitations Whether a statute of limitations for facial constitutional challenges begins to run solely from the date of enactment, or whether each day of continue…
24-1055 William Becker, et al. v. City of Hillsboro, Missouri Eighth Circuit 2025-04-07 Denied appellate-review constitutional-law land-use-regulation property-rights regulatory-taking takings-clause Whether the Court of Appeals improperly declined to recognize an unconstitutional regulatory taking under Nollan, Dolan, and Lucas precedents
24-908 Fane Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-24 Denied Amici (4) economic-use land-use-restrictions lucas-doctrine property-rights regulatory-taking ripeness Whether a claim that a local ordinance effected a regulatory taking upon enactment remains unripe until the landowner asks the local government for pe…
24A746 Kingston Kohr, LLC v. City of Irvine, California California 2025-01-30 Presumed Complete constitutional-scrutiny demolition eminent-domain fifth-amendment property-rights regulatory-taking Whether a city's mandatory demolition of a fire-damaged building constitutes a regulatory taking under the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause when a pro…
24A435 Mount Clemens Recreational Bowl, Inc., et al. v. Elizabeth Hertel, Director, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Michigan 2024-10-31 Presumed Complete economic-impact fifth-amendment investment-backed-expectations just-compensation penn-central-test regulatory-taking Whether a regulatory restriction that substantially interferes with a business's economic expectations constitutes a compensable taking under the Fift…
24-487 James G. Collins v. Monterey County, California Ninth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied economic-deprivation government-regulation lucas-doctrine penn-central-test property-rights regulatory-taking Does a regulatory taking under Lucas require complete economic deprivation, and how do recent Supreme Court precedents impact the Penn Central takings…
24A418 The Gym 24/7 Fitness, LLC, On Behalf of Itself and All Others Similarly Situated v. Michigan Michigan 2024-10-30 Presumed Complete fifth-amendment investment-expectations just-compensation penn-central-test property-rights regulatory-taking Whether a state regulation constitutes a regulatory taking under the Fifth Amendment when it substantially interferes with a private business's invest…
24A150 GHP Management Corporation, et al. v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-08 Presumed Complete covid-19 eviction-moratorium fifth-amendment municipal-code regulatory-taking takings-clause Whether a municipal eviction moratorium during the COVID-19 pandemic constitutes a regulatory taking under the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause that r…
23-1337 Baldwin County, Alabama, et al. v. Mike Bordelon, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied Response Waived due-process economic-use fair-market-value fifth-amendment just-compensation penn-central property-rights regulatory-taking takings temporary-prohibition temporary-taking Does the temporary prohibition of a specific project or use constitute a compensable regulatory taking, regardless of the availability of other econom…
23A1004 Lemon Bay Cove, LLC v. United States Federal Circuit 2024-05-10 Presumed Complete federal-claims fifth-amendment government-interference property-rights regulatory-taking tucker-act Whether the Fifth Amendment and Tucker Act permit a takings claim against the federal government for alleged regulatory interference with private prop…
23-1199 Joanne Moskovic v. City of New Buffalo, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process michigan-zoning-enabling-act property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings short-term-rental substantive-due-process zoning zoning-ordinance Whether the Appellate Court erred in finding that Petitioner's use of her home as a short-term rental is not a residential use
23-7349 Scott Zirus v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-04-30 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure housing-assistance mandamus property-rights regulatory-taking standing venue-transfer whether-mandamus-relief-is-available
23-1148 G-Max Management, Inc., et al. v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2024-04-23 Denied Amici (5)Relisted (5) due-process land-use-regulation landlord-tenant penn-central penn-central-test physical-taking property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings rent-regulation takings Whether New York's rent-regulation laws effect physical takings
23-1103 Sawtooth Mountain Ranch, LLC, et al. v. United States Forest Service, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived constitutional-rights declaratory-relief equitable-tolling fifth-amendment just-compensation regulatory-taking statute-of-limitations Question not identified
23-7070 Riley Thornock, et ux. v. Bedford County, Virginia Virginia 2024-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection governmental-overreach property-rights regulatory-taking Does the government's attempt to compel an individual out of their established residence or property warrant the appointment of a court-appointed atto…
23-1045 835 Hinesburg Road, LLC v. City of South Burlington, Vermont, et al. Second Circuit 2024-03-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) or whether a property owner is required to submit development-restrictions due-process exhaustion final-decision land-use land-use-permit property-rights regulatory-taking ripeness ripeness-doctrine takings takings-claim Whether a takings claim is ripe when a city makes a final decision under existing ordinances denying a land use permit, or whether a property owner is…
23-935 Gene Gonzales, et al. v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. Washington 2024-02-27 Denied Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-property due-process exclusionary-rights landlord-tenant landlord-tenant-relationship physical-taking physical-takings property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings takings Whether an ordinance that compels the possession of property by an unwelcome occupant is a categorical physical taking
23A671 Carolyn J. Florimonte v. Borough of Dalton Pennsylvania 2024-01-22 Presumed Complete continuing-trespass fifth-amendment government-overreach property-rights regulatory-taking storm-water-disposal Whether the government's repeated intentional flooding of private property constitutes a regulatory taking under the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause …
23-490 Enrique Jevons, as a Managing Member of Jevons Properties LLC, et al. v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-08 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived covid-19 declaratory-judgment eviction-moratoria fifth-amendment just-compensation regulatory-taking standing takings-clause Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing a challenge to Washington State's COVID-19 eviction moratoria as moot
22-1191 Thomas Gearing, et al. v. City of Half Moon Bay, California Ninth Circuit 2023-06-08 Denied Amici (1) abstention civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process eminent-domain federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment forum pullman-abstention regulatory-taking takings Whether federal courts may deprive takings claimants of their chosen forum by invoking the prudential Pullman abstention doctrine to require them to f…
22-1170 335-7 LLC, et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2023-06-02 Denied Relisted (13) civil-rights due-process economic-value just-compensation landlord-tenant property-rights regulatory-taking rent-control takings takings-clause Does the New York Rent Stabilization Law effect a per se physical taking, a confiscatory taking, or a regulatory taking?
22-1130 74 Pinehurst LLC, et al. v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2023-05-19 Denied Amici (6)Relisted (13) civil-rights due-process landlord-tenant lease-renewal physical-taking property-rights regulatory-taking rent-control rent-stabilization takings tenant-protection Whether a law that prohibits owners from terminating a tenancy at the end of a fixed lease term, except on grounds outside the owner's control, consti…
22-1095 Community Housing Improvement Program, et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Amici (12) affordable-housing civil-rights due-process government-regulation housing-law physical-taking property-rights regulatory-taking rent-control takings Whether the provisions of the New York Rent Stabilization Law that prevent a property owner from regaining exclusive possession and control of her pro…
22-872 Evans Creek, LLC v. City of Reno, Nevada Ninth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied Amici (1) constitutional-law constitutional-property due-process land-use-regulation penn-central penn-central-test property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings takings takings-claim Whether a property owner states a valid takings claim by alleging that a regulation substantially deprives the owner of the right to use property, or …
21-8246 Richard D. Bostwick v. 44 Chestnut Street, Wakefield, Massachusetts, et al. Massachusetts 2022-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-immunity reasonable-accommodation regulatory-taking standing substantive-due-process Whether the Remedies, Procedures and Rights set forth in the Americans with Disabilities Act are unconstitutional
21-719 Sandwich Isles Communications, Inc. v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied civil-rights communications-act confiscatory-rates due-process federal-circuit federal-communications-commission rate-regulation regulatory-taking takings Whether the lower court's holding that a regulatory taking claim based on confiscatory rates must be made at the Federal Communications Commission den…
21-244 Taylor & Sons, Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied 5th-amendment economic-impact fifth-amendment just-compensation penn-central penn-central-test property-rights regulatory-taking takings Does the fact that the property is generating profits on the date of taking satisfy the economic impact requirement to find a regulatory taking under …
21-217 Marcy Britton v. Tim Keller, Mayor of the City of Albuquerque, New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied civil-rights due-process inverse-condemnation penn-central-test property-rights qualified-immunity regulatory-taking regulatory-takings takings takings-clause Did the lower courts err in dismissing Petitioner's Federal Takings claim and claim for inverse condemnation against Defendants with prejudice at the …
20-885 Next Energy, LLC v. Illinois Department of Natural Resources Illinois 2021-01-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) due-process fifth-amendment hydraulic-fracturing mineral-rights oil-and-gas permit-moratorium property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings shale-oil shale-oil-leases takings Whether an unauthorized moratorium on permits needed to drill wells, together with onerous regulations and procedures that exceeded the term of the le…
20-323 John S. Barth v. City of Peabody, Massachusetts First Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights compensation due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment municipal-ordinance property property-rights regulatory-taking takings Did municipal denial of permission to rebuild a home effect a taking of private property, where an ex post facto ordinance prohibited all other econom…
20-54 Bridge Aina Le'a, LLC v. Hawaii Land Use Commission Ninth Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process economic-impact lucas-standard lucas-v-south-carolina penn-central penn-central-factors property-rights regulatory-taking takings temporary-taking Whether the Ninth Circuit's ruling effectively eliminates property owners' ability to recover for temporary regulatory takings conflicts with other co…
19-1252 Callan Campbell, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-04-28 Denied Amici (2) final-decision government-action property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings statute-of-limitations takings tucker-act Does the Tucker Act's statute of limitations for a regulatory takings claim accrue when the Government makes a final decision, or when the plaintiffs …
19-1136 Chong Yim, et al. v. City of Seattle, Washington Washington 2020-03-17 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived civil-rights due-process first-in-time fourteenth-amendment landlord-tenant legislative-act property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings substantive-due-process takings tenant-selection undue-oppression Whether the destruction of a fundamental attribute of property ownership constitutes a taking without the need to prove diminished value or interferen…
19-318 Francis A. Bottini, Jr., et al. v. City of San Diego, California, et al. California 2019-09-09 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived due-process first-english first-english-precedent investment-backed-expectations penn-central penn-central-test property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings single-family-housing takings takings-clause temporary-takings Should the investment-backed-expectations test of Penn Central be construed to totally bar recovery whenever the purchaser of a single-family lot is u…
19-223 Janice Smyth v. Conservation Commission of Falmouth, et al. Massachusetts 2019-08-20 Denied Amici (4)Relisted (3) character-of-government-action character-of-governmental-action economic-impact investment-backed-expectations investment-expectations land-use-regulation penn-central penn-central-test property-rights property-value regulatory-taking regulatory-takings takings-clause-5th-amendment Whether the loss of all developmental use of property and a 91.5% decline in its value is a sufficient 'economic impact' to support a regulatory takin…
18-8305 Nausheen Zainulabeddin v. University of South Florida Board of Trustees Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied IFP commerce-clause disability-discrimination diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-preemption fourteenth-amendment property-rights regulatory-taking sovereign-immunity Did the lower court violate Commerce Clause of the constitution of Article 1, section 8, Clause 3; when it denied principal's interest to maintain uni…
18-1101 Classic Cab, Inc. v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2019-02-22 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights dormant-commerce-clause emergency-rulemaking mootness preexisting-contracts regulatory-taking res-judicata statutory-requirement Is the use of illegal emergency rulemakings in the absence of any objectively cognizable emergency resulting in the complete elimination of an industr…
18-1062 Love Terminal Partners, L.P., et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Amici (8) civil-rights due-process economic-impact fair-market-value federal-law investment-backed-expectations investment-expectations just-compensation property-rights property-taking regulatory-environment regulatory-taking takings Whether courts may treat real property as worthless solely because the owner was not generating positive cash flow at the time of the taking
18-394 Denis P. Kelleher, et ux. v. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation New York 2018-09-27 Denied Amici (1) discretionary-land-use-permit discretionary-permit investment-backed-expectations land-use-restriction palazzolo-v-rhode-island penn-central penn-central-test property-rights real-estate-market regulatory-taking regulatory-takings regulatory-takings-test Whether a property owner may be deemed to lack investment-backed expectations, and thus be barred from challenging a land use restriction as a regulat…
18-324 Douglas Leone, et ux., as Trustees Under That Certain Unrecorded Leone-Perkins Family Trust Dated August 26, 1999, as Amended v. Maui County, Hawaii, et al. Hawaii 2018-09-13 Denied Amici (3) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment economic-benefit economically-beneficial-use fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment investment-use just-compensation land-use lucas-v-south-carolina-coastal-council natural-state property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings takings-clause Whether holding undeveloped property as an 'investment' or using it as a 'park' in its natural state constitutes economically beneficial or productive…